Nicholas Bennett MB
BS FRCS
(Eng) FRCS (Plast)
Consultant Plastic Surgeon
Nicholas Bennett qualified in 1988 from University College
London, having decided 14 years previously, when aged 11,
that he wanted to become a Plastic Surgeon. After his pre-registration
year working at hospitals in London and North Yorkshire,
he went on to complete his Officer training at Sandhurst
and then a two year attachment as a General Practitioner
at a Group Practice near Salisbury.
His introduction to plastic surgery was
at The Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital in 1994, where
he served as a Senior House Officer for six months. The
unit treated both military and civilian patients, although
the majority were soldiers evacuated from Bosnia and the
Falklands with lower limb trauma and burns. The easy accessibility
by helicopter meant that the hospital also received many
acute burns from London and the South east, and he gained
valuable experience in burn resuscitation.
Following further periods of surgical
training including General Surgery, Urology, Orthopaedics
and Neurosurgery it became clear to him that he
still wanted to pursue a career in Plastic Surgery
and in 1996 he commenced training at Odstock Hospital,
Salisbury. He became involved in a research project
investigating the surgical management of chemical
burns. He was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal
College of Surgeons in London in 1996.
He became a Specialist Registrar
in Plastic Surgery in 1997, remaining at Salisbury
for a further two and a half years. He gained further
experience in burns, breast reconstruction, functional
electrical stimulation for paraplegia, congenital
and adult hand surgery including rheumatoid surgery,
head and neck surgery, cleft lip and palate surgery,
microvascular surgery and exposure to trauma, particularly
hand injuries. During this time he made a charitable
visit to Kathmandu, Nepal to treat child burn victims
and teach burn surgery techniques to the Nepalese
surgeons at the Children’s Hospital.
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He continued his plastic surgery training
at the internationally renowned Canniesburn hospital, Glasgow
in March 2000, where he received increasing exposure to
a wide variety of sub-specialties. In particular, the management
of benign and malignant skin lesions, head and neck surgery,
burns, endoscopic assisted surgery, breast reconstruction,
cleft surgery, vascular anomalies, and the use of local,
distant and free flaps within all these sub-specialties,
together with a wide exposure to general trauma.
Having attained the final Plastic Surgery
Fellowship examination, FRCS (Plast), in September 2002,
and passed the European Board Fellowship Examination in
Plastic Surgery (EBOPRAS) in Bern, Switzerland in November
2002, his Certificate of Completion of Surgical Training
(CCST) was awarded in February 2003. He
is a member of The British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons.
He returned to the south of England
with his wife and four children, in order to take up his
appointment as a Consultant Plastic Surgeon in the Defence
Medical Services at The Royal Hospital Haslar and Portsmouth
Healthcare NHS trust in May 2003.
